Edit Notices

Interface messages shown to the user in the Subject editor, the Subject creator, and Manage subjects. NeoWiki ships none, so nothing appears until you create one.

Add a notice

Create the interface message whose key matches the scope you want:

Create	Shown when editing
MediaWiki:Neowiki-editnotice-{ns}	Any Subject in namespace {ns}
MediaWiki:Neowiki-editnotice-{ns}-{dbkey}	A Subject on one page
MediaWiki:Neowiki-editnotice-schema-{Schema}	A Subject of one Schema, anywhere

{ns} is the numeric namespace ID, 0 for the main namespace. {dbkey} and {Schema} use underscores for spaces, and {dbkey} drops the namespace prefix, so Help:New York is 12-New_York and a Schema named Control Document is schema-Control_Document.

Where the namespace has subpages enabled, a notice covers the page and everything beneath it: Neowiki-editnotice-4-Handbook also applies to Project:Handbook/Chapter1. Elsewhere slashes become dashes, so Foo/Bar in the main namespace is 0-Foo-Bar.

To warn anyone editing a Person Subject, create MediaWiki:Neowiki-editnotice-schema-Person:

Check the [[Project:Naming|naming convention]] before changing a person's name.

Write the content

Magic words resolve against the page being edited, so {{PAGENAME}} is that page's name.

To style a notice, target it in CSS by its key: each one is wrapped in <div class="ext-neowiki-edit-notice" data-mw-neowiki-editnotice-key="...">.

When several notices match

All of them are shown, in this order: namespace, page, Schema, then any contributed by extensions. In the Subject creator the Schema notice appears only once a Schema has been chosen.

Known limitation

Notices follow the page being viewed, not the page that stores the Subject. A Subject rendered elsewhere with {{#view: <subjectId>}} (see Parser Functions) therefore shows the viewing page's notices.

From an extension

Extensions can add notices of their own — see Extending NeoWiki.